In Ghostly Japan, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3, sentence 71
I hope that you will always be loved by him,—yes, even a hundred times more than I have been,—and that you will very soon be promoted to a higher rank, and become his honored wife….
Who acts: I, Yukiko · What happens: hope, love, be, promote, become, honor · To what, where: you, honored wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Morning Awakening After a Night’s Rest in a Temple, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Yukiko), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hope | nsubj |
| 2 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 loved | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 loved | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 loved | aux |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 loved | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 loved | aux:pass |
| 8 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hope | ccomp |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 loved | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 loved | punct |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 yes | punct |
| 13 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 2 hope | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 more | punct |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 hundred | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hundred | det |
| 17 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 times | nummod |
| 18 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 more | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 hope | conj |
| 20 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 23 been | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 been | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 been | aux |
| 23 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 more | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 been | punct |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 become | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 become | cc |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 promoted | mark |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 promoted | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 promoted | aux |
| 30 | very | very | ADV | _ | 31 soon | advmod |
| 31 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 promoted | advmod |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 promoted | aux:pass |
| 33 | promoted | promote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 become | advcl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 rank | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 rank | det |
| 36 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 37 rank | amod |
| 37 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 promoted | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 become | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 become | cc |
| 40 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 hope | conj |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 wife | nmod:poss |
| 42 | honored | honor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 wife | amod |
| 43 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 become | xcomp |
| 44 | …. | .. | PUNCT | _ | 2 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | love | future · passive | Yukiko | you | always property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | be | present · perfect | I | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | promote | future · passive | you | to a higher rank; soon property | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | become | infinitive | I not said here | Yukiko's honored wife | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | honor | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Project Gutenberg book 8128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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